Description
This is a selection of some of the best books ever written and published. It represents a small cosmos of 2500 years of our literary heritage. These books are invaluable for their insights into the human heart and soul for their wisdom and humour for their worth as records of social, political and economic life in other times and places and for their extraordinary mastery of language - so extraordinary, in fact, that each book serves as a storehouse of literary quality, of style, rhythm, vocabulary, and ingenuity of expression.
This is a selection of some of the best books ever written and published. It represents a small cosmos of 2500 years of our literary heritage. These books are invaluable for their insights into the human heart and soul for their wisdom and humour for their worth as records of social, political and economic life in other times and places and for their extraordinary mastery of language - so extraordinary, in fact, that each book serves as a storehouse of literary quality, of style, rhythm, vocabulary, and ingenuity of expression.